I Ambrose KirtlandAmbrose Kirtland a Justice of the peace do hereby certify that Thomas J StewartThomas J Stewart the deponent whose place of residence in St LouisSt Louis in the State of MissouriMissouri was by me Sowrn to testify the whole truth of his Knowledge touching the matter in controversy in the cause aforesaid; that deponent was examined and his examination reduced to writing and subscribed by said deponent in My presence on the seventh day of March in the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine between the hours of eight O Clock in the forenoon and six O Clock of the afternoon at the office of Ambrose KirtlandAmbrose Kirtland in the City of NewYork in the County of New York & State of New YorkYork